Speaking & Listening

Building strong, confident learners has several facets. Developing language skills starts way before the milestone first days of preschool. However, when students do arrive at prekindergarten, speaking, listening and language skills are an essential component for emergent readers.                                                                      ...Read more >>                                          
The language skills students develop in preschool continue into kindergarten and first grade as young learners begin their journey toward efficient readers. At Evan-Moor, educators and parents will find an array of speaking, listening and language resources designed to build oral fluency and comprehension through fun and interesting activities that include dramatic play and more.

Primary students will thoroughly enjoy the Retelling Headbands series that provides exciting retelling activities using headbands and plays for classic stories like The Three Billy Goats Gruff and The Lion and the Mouse. Each of the ten stories comes complete with teacher lesson plans, character recognition activities, sequencing practice, follow-up activities and creative headband patterns. The Retelling Headbands series is available in print and e-book formats, letting teachers choose the perfect fit for classroom fun and centers.

The Everyday Literacy: Listening and Speaking series is available for prekindergarten through first grade. Through focused, researched-based daily activities, the series provides students with innovative and exciting lessons that build oral language vocabulary, comprehension, fluency and more by targeting language essentials like phonological awareness, motor skills, oral language vocabulary and comprehension. The Everyday Literacy Listening and Speaking series also includes a free sampler so that educators can first see if the activities will complement their curriculum before purchase. Evan-Moor also makes the resource available to teachers in both a print and e-book format. Teachers and parents can purchase individual Everyday Literacy Listening and Speaking workbooks as well. The literacy workbooks are available individually or in groups of five.

Find all the language resources you require to complement your school’s literacy’s program or provide at home enrichment, reinforcement and summer bridge work. Evan-Moor.com has an array of language resources that help to form the foundation for emergent readers as they begin their educational journey.